Kingsley R Browne

Biology at Work

Rethinking Sexual Equality

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Produktbeschreibung

Browne looks at behavioual differences between men and women as products of different evolutionary pressures facing them throughout human history. Women's biological investment in their offspring has led them to be on average more nurturing and risk averse, and to value relationships over competition. Men have been historically and biologically rewarded for displays of strength and skill, risk taking and status acquisition. These behavioural differences have numerous workplace consequences. For example, sex differences in the drive for status lead to sex differences in the achievement of status.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 164mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780813530536
• ISBN-10: 0813530539
• Artikelnr.: 21641816

Autorenporträt

Kingsley R. Browne is a professor of law at Wayne State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Sex differences in temperament
Sex differences in cognitive abilities
Once one breaks the glass ceiling, does it still exist?
Occupational segregation: why do men still predominate in scientific and
blue-collar jobs?
The gender gap in compensation
Why socialization is an inadequate explanation
Hormones: the proximate cause of physical and psychological sexual
dimorphism
Evolutionary theory and the ultimate cause of biological sex differences
Difference or disadvantage?
A thumb on the scales: changing the rules to improve the numbers
Mitigating work/family conflict
Sexual harassment